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AWS Launches Elastic File System
Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com (News - Alert) company (NASDAQ: AMZN),
today announced that Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS), a new,
fully managed service that makes it easy to set up and scale file
storage in the AWS Cloud, is now available to all customers. With a few
clicks in the AWS Management Console, customers can use Amazon EFS to
create file systems that are accessible to multiple Amazon Elastic
Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances via the Network File System (NFS)
protocol. Amazon EFS can automatically scale without needing to
provision storage or throughput, enabling file systems to grow
seamlessly to petabyte scale, while supporting thousands of concurrent
client connections with consistent performance. Amazon EFS is designed
to support a broad range of file workloads - from big data analytics,
media processing, and genomics analysis that are massively parallelized
and require high levels of throughput, to latency-sensitive use cases
such as content management, home directory storage, and web serving.
Amazon EFS is highly available and durable, redundantly storing each
file system object across multiple Availability Zones. There is no
minimum fee or setup cost, and Amazon EFS customers pay only for the
storage they use. For more information about Amazon EFS, visit http://aws.amazon.com/efs.
Today, companies of all sizes are moving their critical workloads to the
AWS Cloud. Many of these workloads depend on Network Attached Storage
(NAS). Traditionally, it has been costly and time consuming to operate
shared file systems because file growth is unpredictable, procurement
times are long, and monitoring and patch management are administrative
burdens. Now, with Amazon EFS, customers can create and use shared file
systems that are simple, scalable, and reliable. Amazon EFS is easy to
set up and use and doesn't require customers to provision and manage
file system software or storage hardware. When mounted to Amazon EC2
instances, an Amazon EFS file system provides a standard file system
interface and file system semantics, allowing customers to seamlessly
integrate Amazon EFS with their existing applications and tools. Amazon
EFS is designed to provide the throughput, Input/Output Operations per
Second (IOPS), and low latency that file workloads require. Every file
system can burst to at least 100 MB per second, and file systems greater
than 1 TB in size can burst to higher throughput as file system capacity
grows.
"As customers continue to move more and more of their IT infrastructure
to AWS, they've asked for a shared file storage ervice with the
elasticity, simplicity, scalability, and on-demand pricing they enjoy
with our existing object (Amazon S3), block (Amazon EBS), and archive
(Amazon Glacier) storage services," said Peter DeSantis, Vice President,
Compute Services, AWS. "Initially, our customers most passionately
asking for a file system were trying to solve for throughput-heavy use
cases like data analytics applications, large-scale processing
workloads, and many forms of content and web serving. Customers were
excited about Amazon EFS's performance for those workloads, and pretty
soon they were asking if we could expand Amazon EFS to work excellently
for more latency-sensitive and metadata-heavy workloads like highly
dynamic web applications. That's what we've been working on for the last
few months and we're excited to release it to customers today."
Atlassian delivers team collaboration and development tools like JIRA,
Confluence, HipChat, and Bitbucket to more than 57,000 customers. "We
are growing by leaps and bounds, and our core offering is all about
better support delivery. During the course of developing our
next-generation internal support system, we never wanted to worry about
scale again, yet we had existing architectural commitments that meant a
distributed file solution was required," said Sri Viswanath, CTO,
Atlassian. "Atlassian chose Amazon EFS because it was the only option
available that scaled both capacity and performance - without the
up-front payments or the management overhead of traditional models. This
allows our support teams to focus on what matters most - helping our
customers."
Arcesium, launched in 2015 by the D. E. Shaw group and Blackstone
Alternative Asset Management, is a technology and services company that
provides asset managers with software and service solutions for their
post-trade activities. "Arcesium is a financial services SaaS (News - Alert) platform
that requires resilient, secure, and scalable file storage," said Gaurav
Suri, CEO, Arcesium. "Amazon EFS offers us a powerful way to operate and
scale file storage for our Amazon EC2 instances, which has allowed us to
build out our platform quickly without compromising quality."
Seeking Alpha is a platform for investment research, with broad coverage
of stocks, asset classes, ETFs, and investment strategy. "Seeking Alpha
subscribers rely on us for accurate trading information," said Asi
Segal, Chief Technology Officer, Seeking Alpha. "Amazon EFS helps us
manage the thousands of web pages on our site. It also helps us manage
the traffic spikes generated by financial market events, and ensure that
every bit of content requested during these spikes is quickly and
reliably delivered to our subscribers."
Zend, now a Rogue Wave company, was founded by the co-authors of PHP and
provides commercial PHP solutions and support for development leaders,
DevOps, and developers. "Our technology drives over 80 percent of the
websites on the internet today," said Boaz Ziniman, Senior Director,
Cloud Strategy, Zend. "As our customers move websites to AWS, they need
a highly available, highly scalable, easy to use, and affordable file
system and we found Amazon EFS ideal for customer facing websites."
Customers can launch Amazon EFS using the AWS Management Console, AWS
Command Line Interface (CLI), or AWS SDKs. Amazon EFS is available in
the US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), and EU (Ireland) Regions
and will expand to additional Regions in the coming months.
About Amazon Web Services (News - Alert)
For 10 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most
comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. AWS offers over 70
fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, analytics,
mobile, Internet of Things (IoT) and enterprise applications from 35
Availability Zones (AZs) across 13 geographic regions in the U.S.,
Australia, Brazil, China, Germany, Ireland, Japan, Korea, Singapore, and
India. AWS services are trusted by more than a million active customers
around the world - including the fastest growing startups, largest
enterprises, and leading government agencies - to power their
infrastructure, make them more agile, and lower costs. To learn more
about AWS, visit http://aws.amazon.com.
About Amazon
Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than
competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational
excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping,
personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle
Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa
are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more
information, visit www.amazon.com/about.
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